They six prime divine purposes do not pertain to mortal ascent to Paradise. [1] When Adjusters indwell human minds they bring along ideal life plan determined and foreordained by themselves and their superiors. [2] Almost infinite variety characterizes Creator Sons’ plans for their universes. [3] Divine plan so vast it is impossible to see much of it at any one time and during any one life. [4] Divine oneness overspreads creative diversity in the divine and single purpose. [5]
The divine plan and eternal purpose actually embrace and comprehend all the experiments and all the adventures of all his subordinates in every world, system, and constellation in every universe of his vast domains. [6] The plans and purposes of the First Source and Center like himself: eternal, perfect, and forever changeless. [7]
The eternal purpose of the eternal God is a high spiritual ideal. The events of time and the struggles of material existence are but the transient scaffolding which bridges over to the other side, to the promised land of spiritual reality and supernal existence. [8]
The long-drawn-out evolutionary processes of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect control of the universe creators and administrators and unfold in accordance with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father. [9] The plan of Universal Father does not mean he may not in his own way intervene. Father may intervene regarding individual creature at any time. [10]
The Eternal Son is in everlasting liaison with the Father in the successful prosecution of the divine plan of progress: the universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures. [11]
The new gospel affirmed that human salvation is the revelation of a far-reaching divine purpose to be fulfilled and realized in the future destiny of the endless service of the salvaged sons of God. [12]
Because the First Father is infinite in his plans and eternal in his purposes, it is inherently impossible for any finite being ever to grasp or comprehend these divine plans and purposes in their fullness. [13] There is a plan in creation of universe. [14]
There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life. [15]
Lao-tse’s teaching of divine plan was clear: “The Absolute Deity does not strive but is always victorious; he does not coerce mankind but always stands ready to respond to their true desires; the will of God is eternal in patience and eternal in the inevitability of its expression.”. [16]
Physical matter is the one reality which is true and steadfast in its obedience to universal law. Only free will departs from the divine paths and the original plans. [17] Divine plan is realized through the natural, slow, and sure way. [18] There is no division of authority; never is there a cross working of divine power and purpose. [19] There is no limitation of the forces and personalities which the Father may use to uphold his purpose and sustain his creatures. [20] If it is the Father’s will there is nothing we can do to frustrate the divine plan. [21]
When the attainment plan and the bestowal plan had been formulated and proclaimed, alone and of himself, the Infinite Spirit projected and put in operation the tremendous and universal enterprise of mercy ministry. [22]
In the affairs of men’s hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the conduct and destiny of a planet the divine plan prevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love triumphs. [23] The realms of the finite exist by virtue of the eternal purpose of God. [24] Representative government is the divine ideal of self-government among nonperfect beings. [25] There is no favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the selective operation of the divine plan of mortal survival. [26] It was the divine plan that the mortal races of Urantia should have had physical natures more naturally spirit responsive. [27] That some divine Sons lapsed from integrity does not indicate a fault in creatorship. [28] Those without Name and Number have transcendent concept of the eternal purpose of the Universal Father. [29]
The evil appears when we try to add our own little scheme to the larger and more far-reaching divine plan. [30] It is folly attempting advancement independently of divine plan of progression. [31] Our anxieties and sorrows, our trials and disappointments, are just as much a part of the divine plan. [32]
Never, in all our ascent to Paradise, will we gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the established and divine plan by short cuts, personal inventions, or other devices for improving on the way of perfection, to perfection, and for eternal perfection. [33]
Adjusters begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. [34] Father’s plan has predicated finite progress upon effort, creature achievement upon perseverance, and personality development upon faith. [35]
It is possible to conceive of eternity as a cycle and the eternal purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time. [36]
The Father is not in hiding; he is not in arbitrary seclusion. He has mobilized the resources of divine wisdom in a never-ending effort to reveal himself to the children of his universal domains. [37] A gigantic creation to be administered by finaliters. [38]
The creative plan of the Paradise Michaels always proceeds along the path of gradual evolvement and progressive development of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual natures and capacities of the manifold creatures who inhabit the varied orders of spheres comprising such a local universe. [39]
Creators offer his creatures a graduated opportunity to master the details of the operation and administration of the grand universe, having the surviving mortal climb up gradually and by actual participation in every step of the ascent. [40]
The future ages of the evolution of the spheres of outer space will undoubtedly further elaborate, and with more repleteness divinely illuminate, the wisdom and loving-kindness of the Gods in the execution of their divine plan of human survival and mortal ascension. [41]
Energy-matter is being progressively subjected to the overcontrol of living and divine spirit through the experiential striving of living and personal mind. [42] Universes expand as gravity and love reach out into time organizing space. [43]
See also: UB 7:4; UB 32:5; UB 105:4.9.